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The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia

CHAPTER I
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The entire course, including only main windings, may be estimated at 140 or 150 miles.
The Khoonazaberni or river of Khisht rises near the ruins of Shapur, at a short distance from Kazerun, on the route between Bushire and Shiraz, and flows in a broad valley between lofty mountains towards the south-west, entering the Persian Gulf by three mouths, the chief of which is at Rohilla, twenty miles north of Bushire, where the stream has a breadth of sixty yards, and a depth of about four feet.

Above Khisht the river is already thirty yards wide.

Its chief tributary is the Dalaki stream, which enters it from the east, nearly in long.

51 deg..

The entire course of the Khisht river may be about 95 or 100 miles.


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